Overview
- NDR will honor Michaelis by airing the 2010 Tatort episode "Der letzte Patient" at 22:00 on Wednesday, with the film also available in the ARD Mediathek.
- Management confirmed that the German actor and voice artist died on August 17 at the age of 64.
- The death became widely known after fellow voice actor René Dawn-Claude posted a tribute on Instagram.
- Michaelis was recognized for portraying LKA director Stefan Bitomsky opposite Maria Furtwängler in Tatort and for dubbing stars including Sean Bean, Wesley Snipes and Benicio del Toro.
- No cause of death has been disclosed, and colleagues such as Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht have shared public remembrances.